Creative Giftedness: A Multivariate Investment Approach

Abstract

This article presents an "investment" view of creative giftedness. Creatively gifted individuals "buy low and sell high." In other words, they propose ideas that initially seem odd, out of sync with the ideas of others. Over time, however, these gifted individuals bring these ideas to fruition, convince other people of the worth of their ideas, and then metaphorically sell the ideas when these ideas are at a "high price." They then move on to the next novel idea. In order to buy low and sell high, one needs a combination of six resources that function interactively: intelligence, knowledge, styles of thinking, personality, motivation, and environment. Each of these resources and its role in creative giftedness is described. The interaction of resources, domain specificity of giftedness, and identification of creatively gifted individuals are also discussed.

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